Garden Railway Forum

Accucraft have just issued a Service Bulletin regarding the need to wait after filling their gas tanks to allow any surplus gas to dissipate. I believe that there may be more to this issue than the SB indicates. I have just bought a Decauville (as has a colleague) and a Mannin and all 3 locos burst ...

Following on from my previous topic I found another small diesel that may be used with Bulldogs and their type. The site is at Harbour Models. http://www.harbormodels.com/sounds.html Try: Small Diesel (HAR602) You may find the fog horn a little inappropriate but the bell is superb. But again the dim...

Looking for an effective and inexpensive sound system for my locos, particularly the incoming Bulldog I came across this system meant for a small marine diesel. It sounds spot on to me. http://www.mtroniks.net/resources/SmallDieselTug.MP3 There is probably a marine peculiar give- away about it and d...

Just for what it is worth I finally wiped out the remaining "smudges" of the lettering with the following paint combination. I can feel reasonably sure now that this would suit any Accucraft NG wagons if repairing and thus repainting is required. TAMIYA XF77 (IJN grey) TAMIYA XF 66 (Light ...

Respraying would lose all of the delicate black iron work of which there is stacks. Masking the windows and that tiny superb builders plate would also be ultra tricky then there would be the loss of all the other lettering and numbering. The real solution is to buy the Accucraft data only version wh...

I think that the orginal concept was from David Pinniger and if they are in wide use then this topic is a waste but if there is any interest here they are. I use this design as a permanent coupler between my 2 Motor Mules. The ones in the pictures need cleaning up and rounded of not to mention paint...

Thanks for all of the help - I tried the toothpaste route and even tried denture paste but to no avail. I removed the letter "L" effectively with fine sandpaper but then blew it with the "W" and "&". Tried too hard, too fast.

The letters W plus & were not removed successfully with sandpaper - only 3 or 4 swipes additional but unecessary were sufficient to overdo it. However I will use sandpaper in future - with intense care. Does anyone know of a commercial hobby paint suitable for repairing the damage to the paintwo...

*Scraping method:  sharp knife, scalpel, razor - all out. *Solvents etc  some may work but no definitive answer. *Don't do anything at all - normally this is my approach to most garden railway issues but in this case I am constantly confronted with this lettered wagon and it sticks out as being visu...

So having Parkinsons might prove to be a little problematic! Nevertheless I have just used a razor blade ever so gently and the scraping technique will not work I don't think - it would just end up a mish mash of scratches - the lettering paint is on very hard. But thanks anyway - the use of a curve...

I have an Accucraft 4 wheel Guards van that is lettered in white - W & L - on a grey overall colour. Is there anyway of removing this lettering without there being a shadow left behind?

Thanks in anticipation.

The pick up truck is powered by a Brandbright unit. ground No need for any speed controller it just ground along at a slow steady constant speed as dis the truck.

Those NZ selection of unusual vehicles are good fun -the variety is endless.

A couple of road vehicles modified for rail. A commercial motorised rear axle would have some appeal I would imagine. Plus the last of the tram photos following on from previous tram topics. The cable car intrigues. The green restored tram is as the derelict, now burnt and lost forever version. ./my...

Peter Butler in his response to my topic "Overhead wiring for garden railway trams" says that his dogs would tear my tramway to bits. Perhaps he should have Bulldogs whose only interest in garden railways are that they provide further opportunities to pose around showing off their strange ...

./myff/2045809/PDVD_413.jpg Why don't we see more of this plant. It is so dense that it is like shaving when using a hedge clipper. I feel that it is a labour of love. The rather unformed part on the lower right has just been hacked down to provide greater access, otherwise it as formed to perfecti...

The State of Victoria really had a liking for trams. In addition to the Gold Fields tramways of Bendigo and Ballarat there were other systems as well. Melbourne of course had the largest network and that commenced with cable cars. Later it adopted  overhead wiring and built up a giant fleet of W cla...

As a small boy in the Victorian gold field city Bendigo in the 1940s and 1950s I was accustomed to traveling on trams. Many (many!) years later I visited the tramway museum in Bendigo's twin city, Ballarat. Instantly half a century fell away and the same swaying, squeaking, grinding and whining memo...

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It is strange how things can happen. I put up photos of 2 MOTOR MULES to demonstrate the need to have them permanently coupled when I see another post on Roundhouse's new battery powered "Bulldog." Looking up the specs on these I see that they use an ESC ''Locoglyde" which seems to be...

./myff/2004481/04-P1150413.jpg [ul] My all time favourite battery powered locomotive. Highly detailed and a good runner. It surely comes alive when the power is turned on what with the gear whine, the clattering of the panels and general rumbling and mumbling. It runs smoothly with all 4 wheels fir...